Government science advisers from the US and 11 other countries Friday called on scientific publishers to make all research related to the coronavirus and Covid-19 more freely available. In an open letter, the advisers, including White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director Kelvin Droegemeier, asked the publishers to make data available through PubMed Central, a free archive of medical and life science research, or through other sources such as the World Health Organization’s Covid database. The other countries whose officials signed the letter are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and the UK. Read all of our coronavirus coverage here. “To assist efforts to contain and mitigate the rapidly evolving Covid-19 pandemic, basic science research and innovation will be vital to addressing this global crisis,” the letter says. “Given the urgency of the situation, it is particularly important that scientists and the public can access research outcomes as soon as possible.” The letter calls for publishers to make information available in both human and machine-readable formats. In other words, instead of just PDFs of scanned documents, publishers should offer data in formats, such as spreadsheets, that artificial intelligence software and other computer… Read full this story
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